Recent sinkholes around the continent

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Recent sinkholes around the continent

This photo provided by the Toledo, Ohio Fire and Rescue Department shows a car at the bottom of a sinkhole caused by a broken water line in Toledo, Ohio on Wednesday, July 3, 2013. Police say the driver, 60-year-old Pamela Knox of Toledo, was shaken up and didn't appear hurt but was taken to a hospital as a precaution. (AP Photo/Toledo, Ohio Fire and Rescue Department, Lt. Matthew Hertzfeld, File)

A construction vehicle lies where it was swallowed by a sinkhole on Saint-Catherine Street in downtown Montreal, August 5, 2013. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi

A backhoe is shown on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, after being swallowed by a sinkhole in Montreal . A Montreal business-owner says city officials ignored his warnings that there was a problem before a a sinkhole swallowed a backhoe. The backhoe had started to chip at asphalt near the corner of Ste-Catherine and Guy streets yesterday when the ground crumbled beneath it and the heavy machine tumbled in. The driver of the backhoe was not injured but was taken to hospital to be checked out as a precaution. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Graham Hughes)

A backhoe is shown on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, after being swallowed by a sinkhole in Montreal . A Montreal business-owner says city officials ignored his warnings that there was a problem before a a sinkhole swallowed a backhoe. The backhoe had started to chip at asphalt near the corner of Ste-Catherine and Guy streets yesterday when the ground crumbled beneath it and the heavy machine tumbled in. The driver of the backhoe was not injured but was taken to hospital to be checked out as a precaution. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Graham Hughes)

In this Aug. 5, 2013, photo is a sinkhole estimated to be about 90 feet deep in Sharon Springs, Kan. The sinkhole, which is 200 to 300 feet wide, was discovered in a pasture July 31 and is drawing so many onlookers that the landowner is pleading for people to stay away. It occurred naturally and does not appear to be the result of groundwater depletion or oil or gas drilling, according to the Kansas Geological Survey. (AP Photo/Hays Daily News, Mike Corn)

Philadelphia Water Department workers view a car with its front end in a sinkhole Tuesday, July 30, 2013, in Philadelphia. PVI-TV reports the sinkhole opened up overnight on a street in the city's Hunting Park section, with the front of the car falling in the hole Tuesday morning. No injuries are being reported. There's no word on what caused the sinkhole. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Allen Dalton rescues belongings from his car as it is swallowed by a sinkhole on Cohn Street in New Orleans Tuesday morning, July 23, 2013 after a water main break flooded several blocks in the New Orleans neighborhood with water as deep as two feet. (AP Photo/The Times-Picayune, Michael DeMocker)

Water workers, Cody Black (left) and Robbie Gramling (right) tackle a water main break that caused a major sinkhole to form under East Cherokee Drive at Holly Springs Road early Thursday morning, July 11, 2013. Cherokee County Sheriff spokesman Lt. Jay Baker said that the water main break was called in a little after 2 a.m., on Thursday morning. As deputies closed the road, the asphalt began to sink. Then the road collapsed. "Fortunately, we were getting calls about it when water was coming through the road," Baker said. "If it had just happened, it could have been deadly for somebody who drove into it." The Cherokee County Water and Sewage Authority turned off water for about five houses in the area. Spokesman Dwight Turner said a 20-foot section of PVC pipe had split under East Cherokee Drive, causing water to leak out of the road. "[The pipe] is probably 30 years old or older," he said. JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM

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This photo provided by the Toledo, Ohio Fire and Rescue Department shows a car at the bottom of a sinkhole caused by a broken water line in Toledo, Ohio on Wednesday, July 3, 2013. Police say the driver, 60-year-old Pamela Knox of Toledo, was shaken up and didn't appear hurt but was taken to a hospital as a precaution. (AP Photo/Toledo, Ohio Fire and Rescue Department, Lt. Matthew Hertzfeld, File)

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